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...outside the home, many in professional jobs. Ann Toll had an established career by the time she married Robert, senior pastor of Christ United Methodist Church in Fort Collins, Colo., in 2005. A previously married mother of three, Ann, 48, is a financial analyst for a NASA contractor in Boulder who works 10-hr. days, not including the 40-min. commute. She writes for the church newsletter on her lunch break and runs a Sunday youth group, but she draws the line at joining the choir...
...course, what exactly to do about a Harvard Square-sized boulder bearing down on earth is an entirely different challenge. Currently, there are several hypothetical options, which fall into two broad categories. One, give the asteroid a very gentle nudge away from the earth. This could be accomplished either with a tiny rocket attached to the side of the asteroid or by a minute gravitational tug from a nearby spaceship. Two, detonate a nuclear bomb next to the asteroid, vaporizing one side of it, and sending it careening in another direction. Either option requires a good deal of advance notice...
Perhaps the wave of the future is captured most completely by Joshua Onysko, founder and CEO of the cosmetics company Pangea Organics, of Boulder, Colo., whose face creams and shampoos are made from food-grade natural products, support women's farming initiatives and are produced using 100% wind power. And every aspect of the packaging has a secondary use, from the glass bottles to the 100% postconsumer-waste boxes that are folded using origami to avoid glue: thousands of seeds are incorporated into each box so they may be planted to grow Genovese basil, amaranth flowers or a sea buckthorn...
...time, the pros controlled only 15% of the U.S. stock market (the figure is now more than 60%). But they did the bulk of the trading. They moved the market. And therefore they could not, as a group, beat it. The mutual-fund industry's attempts to move this boulder by taking bigger risks ended badly. When the stock market plunged in the 1970s, the funds followed...
Cech, a 1989 Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, has served as the head of Howard Hughes—the nation’s second-richest philanthropic organization—for the past seven years. He is also a longtime faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he maintains an active lab. He said that those two commitments weighed heavily in his decision to withdraw his name...